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Labrador Letter: The Defeat of Prop 1

Dear Friends, Proposition 1 was soundly defeated, sending a clear message: Idaho voters are not for sale. Despite millions in out-of-state funding and extensive support from national groups attempting to influence our state’s elections, the common sense of Idahoans prevailed. For most, the decision was straightforward. Idaho voters were not swayed by liberal media narratives […]

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It’s Time to Defund Climate Change

Food control is people control. Carbon Dioxide (CO2) is the gas of life. Without it we would have NO food to eat or oxygen to breathe! The agenda to eliminate fossil fuels will result in starvation as wind and solar are NOT 24/7 sources of electricity. Production agriculture and industry cannot exist without fossil fuels. […]

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Democracy Needs Election Standards

Design is destiny; the standards we set determine the quality of what we achieve. Our Constitutionally guaranteed republican form of government relies on free, fair, and honest elections to select our representatives and leaders. Federal elections are conducted by the states and each state has different election laws. In Idaho, you must show a government […]

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Labrador Letter: Veterans Day 2024

Dear Friends, Today is Veterans Day and we recognize the brave men and women who have taken the oath and put on the uniform to serve our Republic in the armed forces – the Army, Marine Corps, Navy, Air Force, Space Force, Coast Guard, and our National Guard. Generations of our citizens have answered that […]

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Attorney General Labrador Calls on FCC to Strengthen Vetting Process to Block Robo-Callers

[BOISE] – Attorney General Raúl Labrador and a bipartisan coalition of 46 Attorneys General called on the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to improve their Robocall Mitigation Database (RMD) and close what has effectively been an unmonitored loophole that bad actors exploit to access the U.S. telephone network.  “Idaho citizens are no strangers to the plague of fraudulent […]

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Attorney General Labrador Files Brief to Protect Students’ Free Speech Rights

[BOISE] – Idaho Attorney General Raúl Labrador filed a friend-of-the-court brief today with the U.S. Supreme Court, along with 17 other states, to protect students’ First Amendment free speech rights in the case of L.M. v. Town of Middleborough. A middle school student in Massachusetts wore a t-shirt to school that had the message, “There […]

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MAGA Mania

Traditional Main Stream Media has committed suicide, but the corpse will be with us for a while. We have elected the modern-day equivalent of Hitler, a fascist dictator who will end democracy, force women to have babies, has unlimited powers granted by the Supreme Court, will jail his political opponents, has called white supremacists “fine […]

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Labrador Letter: Protecting the Freedoms of our Citizens

Dear Friends, It’s been a busy week for us! Obviously, there were tremendous political victories at the state and federal levels that dramatically affect the people of Idaho. But our office also delivered legal victories in federal court on two important issues regarding illegal immigration and a federal minimum wage for contractors. Both resulted from […]

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Labrador Letter: Removing Non-citizens from Voter Rolls

Dear Friends, Last week, I joined 26 other states in filing a brief with the U.S. Supreme Court, urging it to allow Virginia to continue removing non-citizens from its voter rolls. The Biden-Harris Department of Justice sued Virginia to halt this process, insisting that non-citizens remain on the rolls through the upcoming presidential election. Unfortunately, […]

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Paying More for Less

Idaho legislators are on the verge of becoming the highest-paid part-time lawmakers in the country. If the Compensation Committee approves the 43% pay increase and legislators do nothing to stop it, it will be clear that priorities in the Statehouse need realigning—toward the true needs of Idahoans, not higher pay for lawmakers. Leadership’s proposal (read […]

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Government is the Problem

Over the last two decades, many so-called conservatives seem to have forgotten one of the most important, bedrock principles of conservatism — fiscal conservatism! Another forgotten principle is the one President Reagan famously espoused: “Government is the problem.” I cannot stress this point strongly enough. More government is never the solution to whatever problem you […]

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Liberation Day?

November 5th as Liberation Day? I like it. The Left going mad? Absolutely. Harris a pathological liar? Obviously. Her campaign a dumpster fire about to be extinguished? I fervently hope so. I hope that 11-6-24 dawns as gloriously as 11-6-16 did. I remember that day well. Trump had been given pretty much a zero chance […]

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